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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Doctors and Graphing

We had so much fun being doctors this morning. H the horse needs help from a doctor so we practiced our skills. Many of us were covered in the nearly 250 band-aids that we used up this morning. Thank goodness the kids were such great helpers at cleaning up all the garbage!

We did a few different activities for art today. We worked on the H the horse maze from the Amazing Action Alphabet, we made doctor charts and marked our height and weight, and we did an eye dropper on coffee filters art. It was such a blast!

We had one of my favorite math lessons this morning. We talked about above/over and below/under. It's the one day that I tell them to stand on a table or chair and they think they've won the lottery! We do it over and over. I say, "Make your body be OVER a table or chair." They all scramble to a new location and we raise our hand over our heads and say "Over! Over!" Then repeat with under/below and above. So much fun!

This afternoon was awesome! We had great reading lessons and even got a jump start in learning the sight word "my". Our math was so much fun because we quickly reviewed all of Comparing and Classifying objects and were able to move on to graphing.

We practiced our cutting today by making "spider webs" or anything each child wanted to make out of coffee filters. We finished up our lessons early enough that we spent the last 10 minutes outside. Wasn't the weather beautiful?

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I'm a homeschooling mom to CJ (7) and EMan (5) and we are sharing the love of learning with our playgroup friends. I used to host a formal preschool in my home but am now focusing on our own family for the time being.

I've created my own toddler and preschool curriculums that have had excellent success with many students reading before Kindergarten.

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